Adam Yauch, Beastie Boys' MCA, Dead at 47 - RIP

jjflash

Not sure if this has been posted, but here is a touching tribute of "Fight for Your Right" by Coldplay from their show last night. Well done cover and appropriate: a party song reworked to include a tinge of melancholy. Love ya' Adam!!! We'll miss you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVr4UP9ntLs&sns=em

red mos

jjflash wrote:

Not sure if this has been posted, but here is a touching tribute of "Fight for Your Right" by Coldplay from their show last night. Well done cover and appropriate: a party song reworked to include a tinge of melancholy. Love ya' Adam!!! We'll miss you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVr4UP9ntLs&sns=em

that was a really good cover.

smg97791

Licensed to Ill on cassette was the first album I ever purchased. Rest in Peace MCA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE&ob=av2n

Still one of the greatest videos of all time, IMO.

12345AGNST1

deserteddotse wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGxhozCHY94

:shock:

I had no idea they were such musicians. That was incredible. What a shame he died.

Pearl Jam_ie

I pretty much can't stand Coldplay, but this is a great cover. Very cool of them to do that.

jjflash wrote:

Not sure if this has been posted, but here is a touching tribute of "Fight for Your Right" by Coldplay from their show last night. Well done cover and appropriate: a party song reworked to include a tinge of melancholy. Love ya' Adam!!! We'll miss you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVr4UP9ntLs&sns=em

Thoughts_Arrive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw5i7TPkYfI

rick1zoo2

VH1 Classic did a tribute earlier this evening by playing a lot of their videos. I enjoyed that a lot and was good for my sons to see - they like them too.

Thoughts_Arrive

Reminds me of my teen days listening to them now.
I fell in love with them in 1998 with the Hello Nasty album when I was 14.
At the time I thought they were a new artist, then my brother in law told me he was listening to their old stuff in his car, he introduced me to their early work. And been a fan since.
Sad times now.

MissPennyLane

So devastating :(

curmudgeoness

jjflash wrote:

Not sure if this has been posted, but here is a touching tribute of "Fight for Your Right" by Coldplay from their show last night. Well done cover and appropriate: a party song reworked to include a tinge of melancholy. Love ya' Adam!!! We'll miss you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVr4UP9ntLs&sns=em

Wow. That was well done and touching.

eeriepadave

RHCP tribute to MCA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKDy3wl8stE

goldrush

jjflash wrote:

Not sure if this has been posted, but here is a touching tribute of "Fight for Your Right" by Coldplay from their show last night. Well done cover and appropriate: a party song reworked to include a tinge of melancholy. Love ya' Adam!!! We'll miss you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVr4UP9ntLs&sns=em

I really liked that cover, I thought it was fitting to play a mellow version of it. Whether you are a Coldplay fan or not they always seem sincere and you can tell that they meant well when they did this (despite some of the negative comments on the video)

It still hasn't really sunk in yet. I played the Beastie Boys pretty much all weekend - "I Don't Know" got a lot of repeats.

Thoughts_Arrive

My colleague played the Anthology album today in the office on her iPod dock.
A few of us saddened by MCA's passing in the office this morning.
Awesome way to honour MCA by playing hours of Beastie Boys songs!
Had my head bobbing at my desk all morning.

Thoughts_Arrive

I just dropped and broke the cover of my copy of Check Your Head :fp:

Indifference71

Saw Local H on Saturday night and they played "FIght for your right" as a tribute. Not sure if theres a video out there, but it was pretty cool.

LukinFan

Indifference71 wrote:

Saw Local H on Saturday night and they played "FIght for your right" as a tribute. Not sure if theres a video out there, but it was pretty cool.

would love to see this one

eeriepadave

eeriepadave

LukinFan wrote:

Indifference71 wrote:

Saw Local H on Saturday night and they played "FIght for your right" as a tribute. Not sure if theres a video out there, but it was pretty cool.

would love to see this one

found it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzY4YBABaR4

Indifference71

eeriepadave wrote:

LukinFan wrote:

Indifference71 wrote:

Saw Local H on Saturday night and they played "FIght for your right" as a tribute. Not sure if theres a video out there, but it was pretty cool.

would love to see this one

found it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzY4YBABaR4

Good find. Thanks!

Suziemay

Free MCA tribute at Brooklyn Bowl tonight from Time Out New York

We just got word that Brooklyn Bowl is tossing a gratis bash in memory of dearly departed Beastie Boy Adam Yauch this evening. Stop by the Williamsburg space for a screening of the Boys’ energizing concert doc, Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That! (check out this clip for a taste) and a live set by Electric Method. Oh, and bartenders will be pouring a cocktail they’ve dubbed the Brass Monkey (rum, vodka and orange juice; $5). So be sure to hoist one of those to honor the Brooklyn-born hip-hop icon (8pm, doors 6pm; free).

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/live-mus ... cmpid=face

eeriepadave

this is pretty awesome!

http://vimeo.com/42106181

LukinFan

eeriepadave wrote:

LukinFan wrote:

Indifference71 wrote:

Saw Local H on Saturday night and they played "FIght for your right" as a tribute. Not sure if theres a video out there, but it was pretty cool.

would love to see this one

found it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzY4YBABaR4

thank you!!

Ledbetterman10

eeriepadave wrote:

this is pretty awesome!

http://vimeo.com/42106181

That was terrific.

youngster

LukinFan wrote:

I'm like Sam the Butcher, bringing Alice the meat

Like Fred Flintstone ridin around with bald feet.

Thoughts_Arrive

This is so fking awesome....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGEn4u7e ... re=related

I just found it, amazing live version.

Heisenberg

Awesome idea

http://pitchfork.com/news/46614-brookly ... dam-yauch/

LukinFan

Heisenberg wrote:

Awesome idea

http://pitchfork.com/news/46614-brookly ... dam-yauch/

I agree- very awesome

norm

"I'm totally numb," Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys said bluntly, in his only interview following the death on May 4th of his bandmate Adam Yauch. Sitting in the New York office of the Beasties' publicist, only 10 days after Yauch's passing, Horovitz fondly recalled their lifetime together in punk, hip-hop and hijinks. He also struggled to describe his feelings after his friend's death and admitted that healing was slow in coming. "My wife is like, 'I want to make sure you're getting it out.' But then I'm walking the dog and I'll start crying on the street." Horovitz shook his head wearily. "It's pretty fucking crazy."

Yauch was the oldest of the Beastie Boys. Was he a leader in the early days?
Yauch was in charge. He was smarter, more organized. In a group of friends, you all come up with stupid shit to do. But you never do it. With Yauch, it got done. He had that extra drive to see things through. We each had our roles. One of his was the make-it-happen person.

I'd be like, "We should take these pictures where we're dressed as undercover cops. That would be funny." But Adam was really into movies. So we made a whole video of that ["Sabotage"]. It wasn't just a nice picture for us to have.

What was Yauch's musical role in the Beastie Boys?
He was a really good bass player. He loved Daryl [Jennifer] of the Bad Brains. And he could sound like that. When we met [producer-musician] Mark Nishita, he and Adam would talk all this musical shit: "You should go up a fifth here." I'd be like, "Tell me where to put my fingers, and I'll play that for four minutes."

Adam was the Techno Wiz – that's what me, Mike and Rick [Rubin] called him. I went to his apartment in Brooklyn once. He had a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and he had strung the tape all over the place – through the kitchen, around chairs. He was cutting up this Led Zeppelin beat, playing it over and over. I was like, "How did you figure that out?" He said, "I heard Sly Stone did that."

How did you and Mike write with Yauch? Who did what?
When the shit hit the fan, after Licensed to Ill, we started having arguments: "I wrote 37 percent of this song." "These 16 lines are mine." We decided none of that mattered. From that day on, everything was split three ways. Whatever it was, whoever did what, we all got the credit. Except we had veto power. If you really hated something, you could be, "That can't happen."

Did you ever veto a Yauch idea?
He wanted the cover of Ill Communication to be this tree painting. It's actually on the inside [of the CD booklet]. I said, "Anything is better than that tree." He called veto on Mike and me when we did [2007's] The Mix-Up. He said, "It has to be instrumental." We were like, "Let's try some vocals." "No, it has to be instrumental."

Can you recall a killer song or verbal lick Yauch wrote that just knocked you out?
When we were in Los Angeles, doing Paul's Boutique, he got this crazy apartment in Koreatown. And he made "A Year and a Day." What happened to the three of us together and all that crap? But I heard that track, and it was some heavy shit. He rapped his ass off. Adam bought a jet pilot's helmet, rigged it with a microphone and recorded the song wearing that helmet.

How did you deal with the change in his writing, after he became a Buddhist?
His lyrics became simple ideas about love and non-violence. It was a struggle for Adam to write those things. Basic feelings come off as very Hallmark. But we went through that change together. I wrote the lyrics for the song "Gratitude" [on Check Your Head], and Adam was like, "I really like that." It made me happy and proud that I had made him happy.

What was your reaction when he told you he had cancer?
He said, "I'm gonna be okay." He's been right about most shit so far. So I believe him. You would get swept up in his excitement and positivity. We recorded a few months ago. It wasn't any different from before. We spent more time making fart jokes and ordering food, which was true to form. That's why it always took so long for us to put records out.

Did the comfort he took in Buddhism help you deal with his illness and passing?
I don't believe Adam was afraid. Bummed out, yeah. But I can't think when I ever saw him afraid. We got jumped in Brooklyn one time, so we've been afraid in that sense. But, man, he hadn't been afraid in a long time. That gives me peace.

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LukinFan

Thanks Norm for posting this - great article. Still very, very sad

youngster

Listening to "To the 5 Boroughs" right now. I think this is their strongest album. So much raw talent and deep grooves. This album is so under-rated compared to their powerhouses like License to Ill and Ill Communication.